Eyeglass-holder.



PATENTED JUNE 9,'1'903.,

M. A. JORDAN.

BYBGLASS HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED 0dr. '1, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Noam PEYERS co mm'quwo WASNINGTON Patented June 9, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

MARY ALICE JORDAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

EYEGLASS-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,663, dated June 9, 1903.

Application filed October 7, 1902. Serial No. 126,351. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY ALICE JORDAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain .new and useful Improvements in Eyeglass-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in eyeglass-holders such as are commonly used for holding the glasses to a ladys dress when they are not in use; and the object of my invention is to provide a holder which may be made in the simplest form and when necessary of very inexpensive material, which will be capable of not only securing the holder to the dress, but also adapted to fasten the holder in the hair of the user.

With this object in view my invention consists of a hook by which the glasses may be secured, which hook is provided with a pin or equivalent means for securing it to the dress of the user and with a hair-pin for securing the holder in the hair.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of .this invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a holder provided with means for securing it to a dress and with a hair-pin for securing it in the hair. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the hook moved on its pivot to a posi-' safety-pin, comprising an upper stem 4, a coil 5, and a pin 6, which latter engages with the aforesaid loop 3.

The parts so far described may, if preferred, be of a form now in very common use, and I therefore lay no claim to the novelty thereof.

Passing through the spring-coil 5 is a hairpin 8, which is preferably formed of partiallytwisted wire, as shown in the drawings, to give it a pleasing eflect and at the same time make it more effectual in use. The springcoil 5 is loosely held on the hair-pin, so as to turn freely thereon, and to keep it in position and yet permit its easy movement I secure to the bent part of the hair-pin collars 9 and 10, which are permanently fixed to the pin.

The simple construction thus described makes it possible for me to provide an eyeglass-holder that can be placed on the market at a very low figure and which is capable when placed in the position shown in Fig. 2 of being secured to the dress of the wearer by means of a pin 6 or when moved to a position somewhat like that shown in Fig. 3 of being secured in the hair by using the hair-pin 8 in the usual manner.

I prefer to form the hair-pin of partiallytwisted wire, as shown in the drawings, so that when it is used on the dress in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the hair-pin will be somewhat ornamental. Itis obvious that the hair-pin may be changed in form and may be further ornamented, if desired.

I am aware that eyeglass-holders have heretofore been formed very similar to what is shown in my drawings when the hair-pin is left off and also that eyeglass-holders have been in very general use which consist of a hair-pin and a chain for holding the eyeglasses, as seen, for example, in United States Patent No. 423,438. I do not claim either of these separately, but regard their combination as very important, as it enables me to provide one simple holder to take the place of the two holders now in general use.

I am also aware that it has been proposed to employ a pin for securing an ornament and that this pin has been combined with a hair-pin by which the whole device may be fastened in the hair; but this device is radically different from mine. One of the essential features of my invention is the hook by which the glasses may be rapidly secured or as rapidly detached, and this hook is provided with a double securing means, one of which means is adapted to secure the hook to the dress and the other to the hair. I regard this article of manufacture as a, novelty and entirely different from anything heretofore proposed.

What I claim as new isv 1. As an improved article of manufacture,

an eyeglass -h0lder permitting easy attach- I of said devices being on the order of a safetyment or removal of the eyeglasses, said hook pin formed of a continuous piece of metal havbeing provided with two separate devices for ing a coil therein, and the other securing de- 15 securing the holder; one of said devices bevice beingahair-pi'n passing through the coil 5 ing pivoted to the other and formed of a hairof the first-mentioned pin and pivoted therepin for securing the holder to the hair, subto, substantially as described. stantially as described. Signed by me this 4th day of October, 1902.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, an eyeglass-holder comprising a hook permit- 10 ting easy attachment or removal of the eyei Witnesses:

glasses; said hook being provided with two J. STEWART RICE, separate devices for securing the holder; one JESSIE R. MARTIN.

MARY ALICE JORDAN. 

